plant-defense
Plant defense refers to the suite of physical, chemical, and molecular mechanisms that plants employ to detect and resist attack from pathogens, herbivores, and parasitic organisms. Understanding these defense pathways is central to plant biology, as they reveal how plants perceive threats and mount targeted immune responses despite lacking a mobile immune system. Research in this field drives advances in crop protection, offering strategies to engineer more resilient plants without relying solely on chemical pesticides.
Weaponizing nutrition: plants use a double strategy to fight herbiv...
Understanding how plants naturally defend themselves against insects could inspire new ways to pr...
CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions.
Same molecular signals that help legumes team up with soil bacteria to naturally fertilize themse...
Glucosylation-mediated kin avoidance inspires parasite-resistant crops.
Dodder vines and witchweeds silently drain the life from garden vegetables and farm fields every ...
MEDIATOR25 integrates jasmonate signaling with specialized metaboli...
Madagascar periwinkle produces compounds used in childhood leukemia drugs, and understanding the ...
Structural innovation and flexibility in plant chemical defenses.
The bitter taste in your kale, the scent of your roses, and the itch from nettles all come from t...
Leaves in Transition: Single nuclei RNA sequencing provides insight...
Sorghum grain feeds hundreds of millions of people in Africa and Asia, and understanding exactly ...
A co-proteomic view of metabolite-specific interactions in the Botr...
Gray mold quietly destroys strawberries, tomatoes, and roses in home gardens every season — and n...
Upregulated jasmonate signaling shifts Arabidopsis microbiota inter...
The soil microbes clinging to your vegetable roots are a delicate community — and this research r...
Phytochemical profile, biological activities, and biotic stress fac...
The potato skins you might be peeling away and discarding are actually packed with protective com...
Plants sniff out danger signals through their leaf skin, not just pores
The succulents on your windowsill and the plants in your drought-stressed garden bed can still pi...
Plant-derived serine protease inhibitor peptides: in vitro antimicr...
Garlic and ginger already in your garden beds are quietly producing compounds that can slow the s...
ATML1-GIR1-TPL/TPR transcriptional repression module controls gluco...
Breeding your garden kale or mustard greens to be naturally more pest-resistant without losing th...
The hormone that helps plants fight bugs, drought, and heat
The chewed leaf on your tomato plant or the roses that toughen up after a heat wave are running o...
Recent Discoveries in Mono- and Dinuclear Nonheme Iron Enzymes: Eme...
These iron enzymes are responsible for making the natural compounds that give plants their flavor...
How generalist caterpillars neutralize plant toxins that picky rela...
Parsnip, celery, parsley, and carrot leaves make furanocoumarins as a defense, and this study sho...
Phenolic constituents from the roots of Strobilanthes sarcorrhiza C...
Root phenolics are the hidden chemistry your garden plants use to defend themselves and influence...
